SOFIA MAGALHÃES

Research Fellow

Sofia Magalhães is an MSc in Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto, where she currently works as a Research Fellow in the project “M2S - Mindfulness to students’ success: Relating executive functions (EF) and writing through a mindfulness app to promote children’s cognitive, social, and health-related outcomes”, under the supervision of Prof. Teresa Limpo. Sofia’s main research interest is the study of children´s development, education and health. At this moment, she is particularly interested in examining the contribution of EF and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) to mindfulness and connected skills, as well as to develop evidence-based practices to improve not only EF, SEL and Mindfulness, but also school-, social-, and health-related outcomes.

You can find more about Sofia Magalhães in ResearchGate

Selected publications

• Magalhães, S., Carneiro, L., Limpo, T., & Filipe, M. (2020). Executive functions predict literacy and mathematics achievements: The unique contribution of cognitive flexibility in grades 2, 4, and 6. Child Neuropsychology, 26(7), 934-952. https://doi.org/10.1080/09297049.2020.1740188
• Magalhães, S., Mesquita, A., Filipe, M., Veloso, A., Castro, S. L., & Limpo, T. (2020). Spelling performance of Portuguese children: Comparison between grade level, misspelling type, and assessment task. Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences, 11, Article 547. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00547

• Limpo, T., Filipe, M., Magalhães, S., Cordeiro, C., Veloso, A., Castro, S. L., & Graham, S. (2020). Development and validation of instruments to measure Portuguese third graders’ reasons to write and self-efficacy. Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11145-020-10039-z
• Rocha, R. S., Filipe, M., Magalhães, S., Graham, S., & Limpo, T. (2019). Reasons to write in Grade 6 and their association with writing quality. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 2157. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02157